Day 3 of Phoenix Rising

I had a off day from work yesterday and was able to get some work done on Phoenix Rising.  It was another basic day of simply applying color washes throughout to help build up forms and hues.  I probably have one more day of working like this before I can begin to focus on establishing details, but things are certainly heading in the right direction so far.

My only concern is how the piece is gonna look once I'm finished and separate the canvases and get everything matted and framed.  I made some preliminary computer altered images to test my aesthetic theory before I began and they looked good but maybe after another few days of work I'll take the joining brackets off the canvases just to see if I need to alter my plans to make it appear as a single canvas and not two separate ones.

I produced a progress video for the day's work and like the previous videos, this one also provided a lesson through misfortune.  It was actually more like one and a half lessons.  The half lesson is a continuation from the last time dealing with the glare, which I made an effort to lessen by closing the set of blinds that lets direct sun in but there was still a fare amount of glare so I'll close even more blinds next time.  The main lesson was that my camera has only a 74 minute limit on its memory card, so the last 10-20 minutes of my work were not filmed.  For the last video, which is longer than this one, I filmed two 45-55 minute segments and combined them to make the full day's video.  I didn't want to go with that process because it more than doubles the conversion time it takes to convert my camera's output files into a Movie Maker friendly file type, but now I know it's the only way to reliably film more than an hour's worth of work.